Horse-tail band



(No Modeln.)

A. W. CASH.

Y HORSE TAIL BAND.

bla/106,123. Patented July 2, 1889.

UNITED; l STATES ATENT OFFICEe f ARTHUR WV. CASH, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

HORS E-TAI L BAN D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,123, dated July 2, 1889.

v Application filed October 8I 1888. Serial No. 287,489. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern.:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR W. CASH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Tail Bands; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others'skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to bands or clips such as are used to hold horses tails in -wound or doubled position in wet or muddy weather, and has for its object to provide a device for this purpose which shall be cheap and simple in its construction, adaptable to tails of various sizes, and which when placed in position shall firmly hold the tail in its tied or wound shape; and with these ends in view my invention consists in the details of construction and combination' of elements hereinafter fully described, and then recited in the claim.

In order that such as are skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may fully understand how to make and use my improvement, I will describe the same in detail, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and the numerals marked thereon, and in which- Figure l shows my device in position upon a horses tail; Fig. 2, a perspective of the clip open; Fig. 3, a section taken through the closed clip at the line y y of Fig. 1.,-Fig. 4., a plan view of the blank; Fig. 5, a detail sectional view at line X X, Fig. 6, showing a modified form of fastening; and Fig. 6, a plan view of a blank adapted for the fastening eX- hibited at Fig. 5.

Like figures denote the same parts in all the views.

l is a fiat thin strip of resilient metal,pref erably steel or spring-brass. Through this strip I punch by means of dies the perforations2 3. (Shown in the several figures.) Those denoted by 2 are punched so as to leave the projections or teeth 4, which bya subsequent operation are bent downward at substantially right angles to the face of the strip, as seen at Figs. 2, 3, and 5. The perforations 3 perforations being cut on three sides only for the formation of the hooks. These hooks by engagement with any of the perforations (see Fig. 3) serve to hold the clip in its closed position upon the tail.

In some instances it is found desirable to use as adjunctory to the hooks a more positively-holding fastening. This I have shown in Figs. 5 and 6. It consists of a T-headed stud 6, insertible through supplemental perforations or slots '7 in the band, and then caused to hold as against retraction by a quarter-turn therein.

My device is applied by slipping it upon the tail, which has theretofore been doubled, twisted, or knotted, as desired, then closing the clip tightly about the mass of hairs, and then catching the hooks in the farthest perforation with which they can be caused to engage. The elasticity of the bundled hair will generally be found sufficient to prevent disengagement; but as the bands will begenerally madewith the supplemental central perforations the stud may be'i'nserted for additional security. The teeth or projections 4, holding in the closely-bundled hair, preventany slipping of the clip from the place where it is applied.

I am aware that a tail-band comprising two pieces of sheet metal hinged together and provided with teeth upon the edges of one of said pieces has heretofore been made; but I do not wish to be understood as laying claim to such construction, nor to any construction of band in which two or more parts are united by hinges or similar joints.

I claim-- A horse-tail band, the same consisting of a IGO Sngle strip of resillent metal having therein 1u testimony whereof I ftx my signature in at regular intervals .f1-11d throughout its entire presence of two Witnesses. length t series of perforations, whereby the resiliency of the band is equalized, :t series of ARTHUR XV. CASH. 5 teeth projecting inward from the surface of the band for L portion of its length, :md hooks XVituesses: for the securing of the baud about the tail, S. H. HUBBARD, substantially as set forth. XV. O. KELLOGG. 

